🔊 🎙 Listen Every Day Challenge - Spring 2023 🌼 🌱

:hot_pepper: May 2

Two more episodes of 極主夫道. 美久’s mother is played by an actress I recognized as a Terrace House host. Goes by the name You. I find her voice intriguing.
I love the 極主夫道 manga but these forty-five minute live action episodes have brought it to such an unexpected wonderful place for me. Funny to the point that I have to restrain myself. Stifling my laughter to avoid waking people.

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May 3, Wed of Week 6 of Spring Q2 2023 :cherry_blossom:

歴史 [45/90] - 江戸時代 [7/11].

Places and names

こころ (夏目漱石) : (下) 先生と遺書 Ch.41-44.

日本語の森 on 一人焼肉.

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03/05/2023 :fairy: Home Post Link

3 episodes from Japanese with Shun. I’m genuinely curious about Shun’s life now, mostly because it’s so different from mine (duh) and because I like to romanticize strangers’ lives.

The episodes are getting a little harder to understand. I think, to match the pace of reading/listening resources, I really need to start focusing more on grammar. Otherwise, the episodes were really fun. They were about karaoke, toilets in Japan, and sleep. The karaoke episode was hard to understand because it had really difficult and new words.

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:cherry_blossom: Day 33, 5 月 3 日 :herb:

:headphones: Back to my Home Post

:mount_fuji: Nihongo con Teppei - Episode 15 - 16
They’re starting to get a bit more tough now.

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We did some listening (and interpreting) in class yesterday, using this video. If you ever wanted to learn about Japanese wood architecture and about Japanese architect Kuma Kengo, this is your chance. :slight_smile:

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May 3rd!

Today I watched the final episode of Rilakkuma’s Theme Park Adventure.
I enjoyed this series, though I found it a bit tougher to understand overall than Rilakkuma and Kaoru was - possibly because the theme park setting meant that there was more vocab that I was unfamiliar with.

(Home Post)

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Summary Post

May 2nd
Missed :upside_down_face: I was exhausted, had to work later than planned, and my computer decided to have a mental breakdown after that, so…yeah lol

May 3rd
What did I listen to?: The Akane Nara vlog (thank you @pyr_3 for recommending~)
How much time did I spend listening?: ~10 min

I confess I did skip the opening part where she was talking about some sort of event - forget that, give me deer LOL. This vlog reminded me of my first trip to Japan (where I also went to Nara, but that’s not why it reminded me of that lol - it was more just that feeling of walking around, and seeing the streets, and the train stations…why is Japan so relaxing and pretty)

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:cherry_blossom: :seedling: 5月3日 :seedling: :cherry_blossom:

Listened:

おまけ!
the fruits of my 牛丼 deep dive a few days ago


Probably the first thing I’ve made just from watching videos/reading recipes in japanese! Not a particularly hard thing to make, and some things i had to kinda figure out on the fly, but still!

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Late starter!
I want to go through the top songs on the music charts.

2022

1.残響散歌 / Aimer(エメ)
~4/5☆ Beginning noise bugs me for some reason

2.W / X / Y / Tani Yuuki
~4/5 Really liked this song when it first came out but grew tired of it.

3.ベテルギウス / 優里
~4/5 beautiful voice!

4.ミックスナッツ / Official髭男dism
~2/5 like the chorus but it’s too noisy

5.ドライフラワー / 優里
~4/5 If you have a good singing voice please sing this at karaoke

On to 2021

1.ドライフラワー / 優里- skipped. Already listened to this

2.Dynamite / BTS- skipped. Not a Japanese song

3.夜に駆ける / YOASOBI
~4/5 it’s a good song

4.炎 / LiSA
~3/5 great singer. But not my kinda song

5.怪物 / YOASOBI
~5/5 This is one of the songs that I’ve been listening to on repeat for a long time. It deserves a 5

Well that was fun. Kind of thinking I want to listen to top anime songs of all time instead but for now I’ll stick to year end charts

On to 2020! Oh I remember that year

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:hot_pepper: May 3

Read Real Japanese Essays again today. 料理 角田光代. Listened, listened reading along, thorough read through, listened again. A noticeable step up in difficulty from the previous essays.

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04/05/2023 :fairy: Home Post Link

2 episodes from Nihongo Con Teppei. The first epidoe was easy to understand, but I found it hard to grasp the meaning of a few words in the second ep. I found some fun listening resources that I want to try, so hopefully my listening skills improves before I get to them.

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May 4, Thu of Week 6 of Spring Q2 2023 :cherry_blossom:

こころ (夏目漱石) : (下) 先生と遺書 Ch.45-48.

Onomappu’s Can you understand a casual conversation between two Japanese students? - YouTube

歴史 [46-47/90] - 江戸時代 [8-9/11].

Places and names

なぜパラオは親日国なのか?歴史から日本統治時代までわかりやすく解説 - YouTube. The country with circular moon flag :jp: :full_moon_with_face:

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Today I watched the latest video from Speak Japanese Naturally:

About flowers in bloom at a place near Mt. Fuji. This place looks amazing, I love the view of Mt. Fuji, with the pink flowers and the trees backing it all with a perfect strip of clouds.
Also found it amusing how there was a ton of Peter Rabbit merchandise, wasn’t really expecting to see something so English in the middle of Japan.
okay, I just looked it up, seems that Japan is actually mad about Peter Rabbit :laughing:

I understood quite a bit I think, the Japanese subs really help! I think this has quickly become one of my favourite channels.

I also listened to/watched two vids from @windupbird’s collection of cute animal videos:

On the capybara mandarin sequel, does the woman talking have a capybara as a microphone?!
so cute (I also love how disappointed the crowd sounded when the mandarin tumbled :laughing:


Oh man, looks so good. I hope it was devoured good!

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:cherry_blossom: Day 34, 5 月 4 日 :herb:

:headphones: Back to my Home Post

:mount_fuji: Nihongo con Teppei - Episode 17 - 18
Finally caught up to where I last left off. I appreciate the format of easy first half and then somewhat more difficult, conversational later half. I’m looking forward to when I’m relistening to this many years later.

That gives me an idea: I think I’ll set myself the goal to revisit certain things at the beginning of each year of study. If they become too easy, I’ll move on from them. But for 日本語こんてっぺい I want to see next year how much I can understand from these early episodes. Maybe I’ll do one early episode and one where I’m further along the line for comparison?

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May 3-4 :dna: :headphones:

I have been enjoying the 硝子の塔の殺人 audiobook a lot. I’m not sure if certain voices got less annoying or it’s just that I’m enjoying the story so much, but even when they shout and shriek excitedly I don’t mind at all. And the narration in between the dialogue is nicely calm and even. A very good balance.

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Summary Post

May 4th
What did I listen to?: Akane Korea travel vlog
How much time did I spend listening?: ~13 min

I saw this video pop up as a recommended video - what a lovely intersection of my interests xD I have not been to Korea but am curious how it would be to go there so this was right up my alley ^^ The WowPass seems hella convenient, I would definitely use that lol

I want to eat this so bad?? It looks amazing :drooling_face: 牛丼 is low-key one of my favorite foods, I wish that I was in any way skilled enough to make that (you say not particularly hard to make but respectfully all cooking is hard to me lmao)

OH MY GOODNESS I think so :sob: That’s adorable, I didn’t even notice :sob:

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May 4th!

Just a tiny listen today - an episode of Nihongo con Teppei for Beginners.

(Home Post)

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2020

1.夜に駆ける / YOASOBI- skipped. Already listened to this today

2.Pretender / Official髭男dism
~3/5 I get why people like this song but it’s not my thing

3.紅蓮華 / LiSA
5/5 I think this song will be remembered for a long time

4.I LOVE… / Official髭男dism
3/5 Lots of extra noises in this song.

5.白日 / King Gnu
3/5 meh!

2019

1.Lemon / 米津玄師
4/5 Good song. Just bored with it

2.マリーゴールド / あいみょん
4/5 The song I hear the most at

3.Pretender / Official髭男dism
-skipped already listened to this

4.白日 / King Gnu
-skipped already listened to this

5.馬と鹿 / 米津玄師
4/5 can’t believe this song is 4 years old now

2018 is when I came to Japan. I didn’t really listen to Japanese music before 2019 so I’m curious.

2018

1.Lemon / 米津玄師 -skipped listened to already

2.U.S.A. / DA PUMP
5/5 COME ON BABY AMERICA something something something!

3.ガラスを割れ! / 欅坂46
5/5 It’s so fun!!!

4.打上花火 / DAOKO × 米津玄師
5/5 beautiful song. Completely forgot about it until now

5.ドラえもん / 星野源
4/5

songs in 2018 seem a lot happier

2017

1.恋 / 星野源
4/5 It’s fine. Just tired of it.

2.シェイプ・オブ・ユー / エド・シーラン
Skipped not a Japanese song

3.打上花火 / DAOKO × 米津玄師
Skipped listened to already

4.不協和音 / 欅坂46
5/5 Very fun song :musical_note:

5.二人セゾン / 欅坂46
4/5 I like it. This group had 2 hit singles this year. They must have been busy.

This is a fun way to get know Japanese music

2016

1.翼はいらない / AKB48
2/5 I didn’t really like it.

2.前前前世 / RADWIMPS
4/5 I remember listening to this a lot.

3.恋 / 星野源 -Skipped already listened to this

4.君はメロディー / AKB48
3/5 it’s okay

5.世界に一つだけの花 / SMAP
3/5 It’s okay

Wow I’ve listened to a lot of songs today
Not sure if it is good for listening practice but it is fun

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05/05/2023 :fairy: Home Post Link

One episode from Japanese with Shun. I had to listen to the same episode twice because I was walking and I couldn’t hear the audio very well.

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May 5, Fri of Week 6 of Spring Q2 2023 :cherry_blossom:

こころ (夏目漱石) : (下) 先生と遺書 Ch.49-52.

歴史 [48-49/90] - 江戸時代 [10-11/11].

Places and names

Also, listened to YUYU on Radwimps.

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